HD-DVD: Our Betamax
Just when you thought it couldn’t get much worse for HD-DVD, it got worse: Wal-Mart announced today it is dumping the high definition format in favor of Blu-Ray. The bad news caps a week of bad news that included Netflix announcing it would exclusively carry Blu-Ray and a plan by Best Buy to showcase Blu-Ray products and to steer consumers towards the Sony format even thought it will continue to carry HD-DVD.
So what now for Toshiba and Microsoft? More importantly, what now for all the people who already bought an HD-DVD player? I guess they can continue to watch the selected titles they bought already, but once that library runs out it’ll be time to make another big home entertainment investment.
For the rest of us, hopefully this will mean the end to the format divide and the beginning of price declines for Blu-Ray gear.
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